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The Federal Academy

Since it was founded in 1992, the Federal Academy for Security Policy (Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik, BAKS) has been a place of strategic thinking and learning. The Academy’s work is interdisciplinary in its approach and practically oriented. It promotes a common understanding of national and international security policy among civil servants, officers, managers, scientists, journalists, key figures from civil society, and experts from abroad.

Seminars, Conferences and Events

The seminars at the Federal Academy are advanced training courses open to high-ranking officials from the Federal and the State level as well as experts and executives from business, sciences, non-governmental organizations and partner nations.

Working Papers

Partners

The Federal Academy for Security Policy is in constant exchange with partners from at home and abroad to breathe life into the concept of networked security.

Since the Federal Academy for Security Policy deliberately has no teaching staff of its own, it has to rely on active cooperation with numerous organizations and institutions. The latter’s expertise is not only a guarantee for the high quality of teaching, but also for the topicality of contents.

National partners of the Federal Academy for Security Policy include the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP / German Institute for International and Security Affairs), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP / German Council on Foreign Relations), the Munich Security Conference and various political foundations.

At the international level, the Federal Academy for Security Policy plays an active part in merging the European Security and Defence College. However, it also maintains individual partnerships with international institutions that have dedicated themselves to a comprehensive understanding of security policy, such as

In cooperation with its international partners, the Federal Academy for Security Policy organizes joint forums, conferences and presentations. Even the alumni organizations are in contact and constitute an international extension of the “strategic community” network.

BAKS-Newsletter

Here you can subscribe to the BAKS’s newsletters. Please note that there are more BAKS Papers in German than in English.